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a spokesman for john boehner. today this is always an embarrassment, in many ways the cbo coming out making him having to refigure the numbers, that helped and bought him an extra day? >> when you watch this whole showdown be unveiled, john is one of the most medical politicians that i have ever worked for. he is not going to get very rattled by a cbo estimate that has $850 instead of the 1.2. >> congresswoman emerson said he's not changing the cuts, he's changing the debt ceiling because he doesn't want to get too far away from reid. >> and he's going to do what he can to find the right numbers that he can start to satisfy the conference and then he's going to go back to what he's done this entire time, growing the vote, finding where is one more vote, one more vote, so it actually leads up to something he can bring to the floor. >> senator schumer said they're not going to start the clock, they're not going to try to jam in a vote in the senate. they want to use it as sort of the last gasp vehicle. but at some p
a spokesman for john boehner. today this is always an embarrassment, in many ways the cbo coming out making him having to refigure the numbers, that helped and bought him an extra day? >> when you watch this whole showdown be unveiled, john is one of the most medical politicians that i have ever worked for. he is not going to get very rattled by a cbo estimate that has $850 instead of the 1.2. >> congresswoman emerson said he's not changing the cuts, he's changing the debt ceiling...
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speaker boehner and leader reid go their own ways. the white house rejects any sort of nine-month option. despite the drama, is a big deal still in the cards? and as thing keeps reeling, proof congress is broken beyond repair. some say this congress is the worst ever and he's seen lots and lots of bad ones. >>> to the iowa straw poll break the back of a campaign? sure looks like it. tim pawlenty and michele bachmann going toe to toe lashing out at each other. >>> good morning. this is "the daily rundown," i'm which t chuck todd. >>> house speaker john boehner and harry reid have separate plans in the works to raise the debt ceiling before next tuesday's deadline. house republicans are flat out dismissive of reid's plan for a $2.7 trillion cut since a trillion of the cuts are not really new but simply counting the saving from the wind down of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. senate republicans say reid was with them on a two-step increase process, but that the white house shot that down. and the white house says it's all up to boehner
speaker boehner and leader reid go their own ways. the white house rejects any sort of nine-month option. despite the drama, is a big deal still in the cards? and as thing keeps reeling, proof congress is broken beyond repair. some say this congress is the worst ever and he's seen lots and lots of bad ones. >>> to the iowa straw poll break the back of a campaign? sure looks like it. tim pawlenty and michele bachmann going toe to toe lashing out at each other. >>> good morning....
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speaker boehner's approach has two steps. again, the question is, if the special committee does not perform, how do you shore the debt limit, that it's extended? those are the challenges that we have. so we've worked all day yesterday trying to find a fail-safe mechanism in case the special committee of congress would fail to provide the additional savings. >> right. >> and we came up with some very good ideas for doing that, and one involves the group of six plan if congress fails to come up with the additional savings. >> i know in this "gang of six," three democrats, three republicans, but i have not heard assurances the three republicans are onboard of essentially changing the trig jer t ger here? taking this from this joint committee. do you have chambliss, and senate coburn onboard? >> i can't speak for them. i've learned around here, you don't speak for other senators. they speak for themselves. we have been meeting regularly. there's a desire on all of our parts that the "gang of six" work be part of the package. fran
speaker boehner's approach has two steps. again, the question is, if the special committee does not perform, how do you shore the debt limit, that it's extended? those are the challenges that we have. so we've worked all day yesterday trying to find a fail-safe mechanism in case the special committee of congress would fail to provide the additional savings. >> right. >> and we came up with some very good ideas for doing that, and one involves the group of six plan if congress fails...
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boehner together. here you go. >> if you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your member of congress know. >> president obama and the house republicans. it isn't about congress and the white house. it's about the standard between the american people and the future we seek for ourselves and our families. it's a dangerous game that we've never played before and we can't afford to play it now. >> in washington, more spending and more debt is business as usual. i've got news for washington. those days are over. >> luke russert, where are we with the reid and boehner negotiations? because it's my understanding that they are talking actively right now. >> well, let's talk about the bills first. the reid bill is done in the house, will not be moved, might not be able to garner closure. >> let it go. >> let it go. >> and reid's bill would pass. >> correct. >> in the house, john boehner now with mccarthy and can for, it's a team effort, trying to garner the 217 votes that they need to get this
boehner together. here you go. >> if you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your member of congress know. >> president obama and the house republicans. it isn't about congress and the white house. it's about the standard between the american people and the future we seek for ourselves and our families. it's a dangerous game that we've never played before and we can't afford to play it now. >> in washington, more spending and more debt is business as usual....
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in fact, boehner pitched the big deal to senate republicans yesterday. boehner, not mcconnell. and it was behind closed doors. roy blunt who served in the house of leadership under boehner for three years, he handicapped the deal. he's now a senator from misso i missouri. >> i have probably been in at least hundreds of meetings -- i don't know if i'd get to thousands -- with speaker boehner before he was speaker. he is always an optimistic man and he was optimistic today. there's no deal yet. nobody knows what the deal is. we'll see how genuine everybody is in trying to get there. but i think if they do get there they'll get there pretty quickly or they won't get there. >> look, all of this is about everybody dealing with their own bases. we know the president's meeting with nancy pelosi today at the bhiet house and we know speaker boehner is talking to not just senate republicans but republicans in his own conference. now, boehner is up against some tough math. there are 240 republicans in the house. boehner lost 59 of them on the continuing resolution, the last bargain if you
in fact, boehner pitched the big deal to senate republicans yesterday. boehner, not mcconnell. and it was behind closed doors. roy blunt who served in the house of leadership under boehner for three years, he handicapped the deal. he's now a senator from misso i missouri. >> i have probably been in at least hundreds of meetings -- i don't know if i'd get to thousands -- with speaker boehner before he was speaker. he is always an optimistic man and he was optimistic today. there's no deal...
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the president's veto threat when it comes to the boehner plan specific to the boehner plan, is it clear that the president is going to -- he wants to veto any process that doesn't raise this debt ceiling past 2012, is that really the veto threat here that is the line in the sand for the white house? >> well, let me explain why that's important, chuck. what the house republican plan would do is have this whole debt ceiling spectacle, three-ring circus the president talked about monday, repeated again a few months from now over the holidays. you know, the debt ceiling debate would ruin christmas. it makes no sense. it's harming our economy now. you would have this hanging over the country at one of the most economically important periods of our country around the holiday season. that makes no sense. what we need to do over the next few days -- listen, the reid plan has twice the deficit reduction as the boehner plan does. little differentiation in terms of the spending cuts. what we don't want to have is have this hanging over our economy. it's an irresponsible thing to do. but there's an
the president's veto threat when it comes to the boehner plan specific to the boehner plan, is it clear that the president is going to -- he wants to veto any process that doesn't raise this debt ceiling past 2012, is that really the veto threat here that is the line in the sand for the white house? >> well, let me explain why that's important, chuck. what the house republican plan would do is have this whole debt ceiling spectacle, three-ring circus the president talked about monday,...
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the white house's hands if they want to cut a big are deal with boehner? that's why you're seeing a lot more talk between boehner and the president this time rather than the president and mcconnell. tomorrow's meeting at the white house will be crowded but eight members of congress are in the room including the democratic leader of the house, nancy pelosi which didn't make some folks happy, although the number twos are there, including cantor and steny hoyer who is the guy who has to whip votes for the president to get a deal through if nancy pelosi doesn't support it. this is about boehner and obama. the july 22nd, not a hard deadline but august 2nd is. turning to the race for 2012. news in the second quarter. mitt romney reporting he raised just over $18 million in the second quarter. 12.6 million in cash on hand. let's put this $18 million number in perspective. less than the 20 million plus he raised in the first full quarter of 2007. in fact he raised 23 million that time. good news for romney. he dominates in new hampshire. in a new poll 35% of likel
the white house's hands if they want to cut a big are deal with boehner? that's why you're seeing a lot more talk between boehner and the president this time rather than the president and mcconnell. tomorrow's meeting at the white house will be crowded but eight members of congress are in the room including the democratic leader of the house, nancy pelosi which didn't make some folks happy, although the number twos are there, including cantor and steny hoyer who is the guy who has to whip votes...
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we came here to try to cut spending, brought boehner, brought the white house back to the table, back to talking about something big. now, look, we still got a long ways to go. it's a weekend of sales jobs going on right now that actually began last night when the president had the congressional democratic leadership over to start talking turkey. so that brings us to the other sticking point, the actual substance. everybody has to figure out what to cut. this isn't going to be as easy as folks think and both sides are moving toward a deal that would include a trigger to assure mutually destructive politically when it comes to the two big items being kicked to committees or joint committees and that's still being figured out, tax and entitlements. one incentive plan would kill bush tax cuts for the rich and key portions of the new health care law if somehow the reforms for the tax code and social security and medicare weren't agreed to and implemented by january 1st, 2013. the question is, is the penalty on the bush tax cuts sort of the idea that you're kicking this down, is that going
we came here to try to cut spending, brought boehner, brought the white house back to the table, back to talking about something big. now, look, we still got a long ways to go. it's a weekend of sales jobs going on right now that actually began last night when the president had the congressional democratic leadership over to start talking turkey. so that brings us to the other sticking point, the actual substance. everybody has to figure out what to cut. this isn't going to be as easy as folks...
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then it was pelosi,boehner and canter. this isn't exactly high-speed rail. >> right now there are multiple trains heading toward the station. some of them may continue up to the last moment because we need to be sure that that failsafe option is there even as we pursue aggressively the possibility of doing something bigger. >> look, here's where things stand. there are three different big deals out there. number one is what the president and speaker boehner and eric cantor are negotiating, which is, yes, a big deal that is separate from anything the gang of six in the senate is working on. and then of course there's mcconnell-reid. one thing that's going on in the last 24 to 48 hours, is any deal that's mcconnell-reid that includes this idea of sort of the disapproval vote, giving the president more power to raise the debt ceiling, that thing has grown to the point of almost being toxic with some house republicans. in fact, they hate it so much, they may prefer to negotiate with the president directly. but for the white ho
then it was pelosi,boehner and canter. this isn't exactly high-speed rail. >> right now there are multiple trains heading toward the station. some of them may continue up to the last moment because we need to be sure that that failsafe option is there even as we pursue aggressively the possibility of doing something bigger. >> look, here's where things stand. there are three different big deals out there. number one is what the president and speaker boehner and eric cantor are...
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we know speaker boehner is there. probably if he could endorse the gang of six would, but he might be alone in the house republican caucus and that's an issue for him. >> in which then it all falls on nancy pelosi. >> no, it falls on steny hoyer. ultimately because i don't think she's going to be there to be counting votes. >> it's sort of that question of who's the grownup in the room. it's t.a.r.p. all over again. >> we shall see. shameless plug time, cynthia, i'm start with you. >> read my column. i talk about shameless republicans who don't care if the economy teeters over the abyss. >> christina. >> well, first happy birthday to david. but roll call, we have a little tidbit that some white house leaders are meeting with faith leaders about the deficit. >> if you need a compliment to first read check out the morning line at pbs news hour, our website. today we'll be interviewing ron paul. >> ron paul? who sits at 9% in our poll. he doesn't ever grow, though, he just sits there. that's it for this edition of "the d
we know speaker boehner is there. probably if he could endorse the gang of six would, but he might be alone in the house republican caucus and that's an issue for him. >> in which then it all falls on nancy pelosi. >> no, it falls on steny hoyer. ultimately because i don't think she's going to be there to be counting votes. >> it's sort of that question of who's the grownup in the room. it's t.a.r.p. all over again. >> we shall see. shameless plug time, cynthia, i'm...
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are there any back-channel negotiations left with speaker boehner? >> if the conversations are going on, they're so far back channel we're not hearing about them. the series of meetings day after day after day. that wasn't necessarily designed, i don't think, to get to an agreement. i mean, that was a recognition that an agreement was likely not to be reached. they were going through the scenario. but i think everything that has become much smaller this week. this is just sort of a, the time is running out, they're just trying to get some type of thing, so senator mcconnell's plan looks to me like it's going to be, you know, the -- it's not the fallback option anymore. it's probably the leading option. >> beth, what i was fascinated by, the friday press conference that john boehner had, he telegraphed that this week was show votes. because he was saying during one of the questions, look, we'll get these votes out of the way and then we'll discuss other options. that's not a guy selling, knowing that -- i mean, showing his cards, knowing that these vo
are there any back-channel negotiations left with speaker boehner? >> if the conversations are going on, they're so far back channel we're not hearing about them. the series of meetings day after day after day. that wasn't necessarily designed, i don't think, to get to an agreement. i mean, that was a recognition that an agreement was likely not to be reached. they were going through the scenario. but i think everything that has become much smaller this week. this is just sort of a, the...
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he's not a conservative, but is it true that john boehner doesn't have the credibility to sell a deal to his tea party caucus the way he did the cr and the other two in the same way. maybe it's a higher bar he has to meet. >> i think he does. the issue is members of congress and the house, more than anything else want to be re-elected. >> they do? >> some of them do. i don't know if that's true. >> my point is this, having worked at the nrcc, what you see basically is three change elections in a row. people are afraid in terms of how this could all flesh out. people don't want to be for any kind of tax cut, particularly in a year how things are going to work for the party. there's concern and i think that's why you're seeing republicans so dug in. >> house republicans already have a vote that they've taken earlier this year on the ryan budget. >> they don't like it. >> and it's a vote that is not playing well with the american public from a party that preached listening to the polls for two years. they seem to have walked away from that piece of dogma. the reality is the next vote has
he's not a conservative, but is it true that john boehner doesn't have the credibility to sell a deal to his tea party caucus the way he did the cr and the other two in the same way. maybe it's a higher bar he has to meet. >> i think he does. the issue is members of congress and the house, more than anything else want to be re-elected. >> they do? >> some of them do. i don't know if that's true. >> my point is this, having worked at the nrcc, what you see basically is...
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. >> we understand that speaker boehner and eric cantor met. they met at the white house over the weekend. where does the actual deal stand? is all the negotiation going on, taking place in the senate and between house republicans? >> the actual deal stands at democrats led by president obama being willing to put all of our sacred cows on the table, still pushing for a big deal to make sure that we can solve our nation's fiscal crisis over the short term and the long term. and on the republican side, sadly, it seems that they are still only willing to insist on their dogmatic adherence to anything that makes sure that we protect millionaires and billionaires. the duck, dodge and dismantle plan that we're going to vote on in the house today is the ryan plan on steroids. it would end medicare as we know it. it would potentially slash social security benefits. make sure that elected members of congress avoid accountability by forcing decisions instead of requiring us to stand in front of our constituents and own up to the votes we cast, which is w
. >> we understand that speaker boehner and eric cantor met. they met at the white house over the weekend. where does the actual deal stand? is all the negotiation going on, taking place in the senate and between house republicans? >> the actual deal stands at democrats led by president obama being willing to put all of our sacred cows on the table, still pushing for a big deal to make sure that we can solve our nation's fiscal crisis over the short term and the long term. and on...